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Mostly Mozart Festival - Barry Douglas performs with Alison Balsom

Venue: Barbican Hall, London

Date: 25 July 2008

Time: 8.00pm

Ticket price: £8, £14, £19, £24, £29

Details:

Barry Douglas is to perform Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 1 with award-winning trumpeter Alison Balsom as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival. Having received critical acclaim when they last performed the concerto with Camerata Ireland at Dublin Castle in June 2007, the pair reunites for the concert at the Barbican with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

The programme will include Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5, the Overture from The Magic Flute as well as an arrangement of the Mozart's Queen of the Night aria for trumpet by Alison Balsom.

Irish pianist Barry Douglas is one of Britain's most charismatic performers. He continues to enjoy a major international solo career which has developed since winning the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow. In 1999 he founded Camerata Ireland, an all-Irish chamber orchestra with players from both Northern and Southern Ireland to celebrate the wealth of Irish musical talent and he continues as Artistic Director of the Clandeboye Festival, Ireland, founded in 2004 and the International Piano Festival, Manchester.

Contact:
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